Some Media Coverage of The First Live Presidential Google+ Hangout

My immediate takeaway? The forum featured real questions on significant issues, with genuine citizen-president interactions, with back and forth conversation. That was precisely the promise of the platform that I considered ahead of time:http://oreil.ly/znCPfz

The moderator, +Steve Grove, gave the participants (2 men, 2 women and one classroom of young people) the opportunity to follow up on their questions to the president.

A question from within the Hangout about a lack of dialog with children about the financial crisis offered the president a human moment, where he said that he tries to explain what’s happened with economy to his daughters over the dinner table.

At the end of the event, was even a moment of unexpected human connection, when one of the women on the hangout invited her three children to come meet the president. They stared and smiled, left a bit wide eyed by the President of the United States smiling out of the computer screen and bidding them to obey their mother and do their homework. We could do with more wonder in the world, where such unexpected encounters occur online.